I think you make some good points about not building your own drone, but as a new person who built his first drone i think it was worth it. It taught me how the drone actually worked and what the components did, which was really helpful. However, i do like to build and fiddle with stuff so it might just be me.
I feel like trap #3 is the most important. A whise person once said. "The moment you start to compare yourself to others is the moment when fun starts to degrade because you cant match your own expectations." Most important thing is to HAVE FUN with like minded people and yourself. The rest happens when time passes by :) Fly safe legends!!!! And have fun 🎉❤
I really enjoy your videos. I’ve been flying drones for almost 3 years and just getting into FPV. My experience is similar to yours in that most people are fascinated by the technology and ask questions.
It took me a few weeks to get the tiny soldering down; I’m an auto mechanic by trade; therefore, I know how to use a soldering iron and read schematics. Once I solder tiny connections, building drones was a breeze. I don't let anyone mess with my drone builds or my vehicles. Being able to solder tiny connections and read schematics is the key to making a drone quickly.
I built my 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th drones and have frames / components for two more 5" freestlye copters being delivered this week. I did my 1st build after watching a Bardwell how to and discovered I enjoy building them as much as flying them. Honestly if not for building it myself I would have felt lost instead of having a much better working knowledge of how each component works & relates to the others. Also, because I chose to build, I had the confidence, plus every tool and most spare parts to make any repairs necessary. Needless to say, I am a huge advocate of building at least ones own first drone. If you stay in the hobby any amount of time, you will aquire most of the tools needed to build anyway just by necessity, its also a little less expensive to get into a quality machine if you build it and a full build can easily be completed in a weekend or less. These days even if youre unable or just refuse to learn to solder, there are plug & play options for every FC / ESC, VTX and RX that you could want, so besides having to buy a few common tools, its hard to imagine a good reason not to want to experience the satisfaction of building your own copter and flying your own creation is always more fun than any store bought drone. Cheers.
I like your cheerful little video. My own progression went-sim only- (because I couldn’t afford a quad yet) then one cheap little quad -- tiny whoops. --learning to build my own bigger one. It’s been good, and I too think it was good to fly first before building. But the bridge has to be crossed, because unless you’re rich enough to pay for repairs, you gotta do it. Thankfully, it’s a relaxing part of the hobby, mostly. The most irritating part to me, is software.
Even the prebuilt drones i bought were eventually completely torn apart and rebuilt/ modified. If you follow a guide with the exact parts they use, building a drone for the first time is pretty easy. Only thing you should wire up is the reciever and the vtx. No need to mess with a gps or LEDs unless you want to. Itll just make the build more complicated and confusing.
Nothing wrong with starting with a prebuilt. But you will have to learn how to fix it at some point. My advice is start with a 75mm Whoop to learn the basics. Great for learning how to fly without the risk. Everything is on connectors, so easy to swap parts and repair while you learn and get a feel for how it all works. Solder on a BT2.0 connector for your first project. After you understand a Whoop it all applies to the bigger quads when you want to step it up.
Great stuff. I'm brand spanking new to the hobby ( 20 hours on sim and 3 hrs on cetus pro). and really appreciate this kind of content. The reason I am learning is because of the therepuetic benefit it gives me. I have an aquired brain injury and the feeling it gives me when I'm cruising around is just so amazing. So for me it is a very personal thing. Later perhaps I will find like minded people. For now I'm gonna keep banging away with this little cetus. Subscribed. 😊
Hi Brodie! I have been binging a lot of your videos as I am trying to get into this hobby! I have decided to go with the radiomaster pocket transmitter, but I’m trying to find a good drone and goggles to go with it. Do you have any recommendations? I would like to keep the whole kit under 500$ please let me know if you have any recommendations!
I just bought the radio master pocket, meteor75 pro, ev800d goggles, 4 extra 1s batteries, and a charger for about $350. Just came in the mail yesterday. All came from getfpv and racedayquads
the not building your first drone i totally feel i suggest that to beginners aswell buy a crux and a radiomaster pocket and a skyzone box goggle for your first experience its cheap easy and you will get into building while upgradeing imo you dont need to start with digital right of the bad i find it beneficial to see how the video behaves and that its important how you position yourself with digital you dont see your video getting worse that well if you dont have your eyes on your bit rate so beginners tend to not care about how to stand with analog you see really fast if your signal is good or not and that it makes a huge difference how you postion yourself oh and its way cheaper to start out with analog crux + pocket + cobra sd + decent charger and some lipos is around 400 bucks so way more affordable than going full dji for 1400 ^^
That's almost exactly what I did, although I got the betafpv literadio for my first controller. It was a great way to get into the hobby, the crux35 analog is a little ripper - inexpensive and relatively small and quiet. And I kept the box goggles so that when I meet people while I'm out flying I can let them ride along and get a taste of the hobby.
@@JohnSmith_1331 ye id take the pocket over the lite radio any day i heard from several people that theirs broke within weeks of buying it the pocket has way better build quality and is to cheap for what it does its competing with the zorro in my opinion i know one guy that bought the pocket as a 2nd radio and its now his main :D
@@bluefpv3263 My literadio was fine, I just upgraded to the boxer after about a year. Still have the little one, although I prefer a bigger controller. I sit with it on my lap and I prefer to have something more substantial and less likely to shift about if I move the sticks aggressively.
@@JohnSmith_1331 than you got a good one boxer is a nice upgrade i got one too :D i always fly standing tho most of the time i get to my spots by bike so bringing a chair isnt really possible
@@bluefpv3263 I generally fly sitting in a beach chair in the bed of my pickup truck. That way I can use the USB to power my goggles and I'm nice and comfortable. I found the smaller controller was a little too light and easy to move around. I love the boxer, and for the price it's amazing.
@@davidpe76 it helps to fly with others that don't care about these things :) I used to fly at spots where I was absolutely sure no one will see me with my goggles on, nowadays I don't care :)
I don't fly dji type drones, everything I fly are little rippers, but I've never had a bad encounter either. Everyone I've met loves the drones. Having a spare pair of box goggles so people can spectate is helpful, as soon as people see it in fpv they are all interested in getting a drone for themselves.
Out of stock is also seemingly a huge issue. My tiny hawk 3 freestyle Plus has been sitting for 2 months now because the manufacturer has no replacement parts and I can't find a generic board in stock I feel safe gambling on. The same thing with tiny whoops, All of the good ones are always out of stock as well as the parts. I just bought an Avata 2, so I can have at least one drone that isn't impacted by this volatile market.
I’m not trying to learn how to fly. I just want to make a unique TV drone for so-called sizes so should I just make a very good drone in my first trial? Should I spend some thousands of dollar on smaller less innovative drones that can be easily made?
@@mrcsYTgood call on getting your own remote. The Emax remote is junk, it failed in a few weeks. I tried to fly with the stick jitters anyways. I crashed in minutes had a short circuit from ejecting only one battery, destroying the drone. Even a Radiomaster Pocket is like $20 more than an EMAX and is like 200% better.
I bought it and it was broken but the sellers gave me a new one and it's really worth the waiting I am flying it for 3 months already and It was my first drone didn't break any important part yet and it flies really good
My biggest fear when I'm flying _any_ of my drones (be it my helicopters or my one-and-only quad) anywhere is Karens. Three reasons why I fly: 1. I'm out in nature. 2. It helps my PTSD in ways modern medicine is unable to. 3. This is one of two moments in my life where I feel truly alive. The second moment is when I'm riding my e-scooter. The last thing I need is some self-important narcissist what thinks they know best, putting _me_ on their list of shit to fuck up that day, simply because I exist and I'm not harming nor endangering anyone or anyone's property. There's already at least five reasons for someone to have a go at me for what I am whenever I go out anywhere.... and bringing my drones into it just adds to that target on my back. I'm on high alert whenever I go out anywhere, to begin with. Some Karen having a go at me will elevate that so damn hard, it could very well cause me to become a recluse. But, then again, that's what they'd unironically want. =-/.-=
Starting out with prebuilt tiny whoops is a good option, that said, if you had built that drone you talked about at the beginning you would have known how to fix it and you wouldn't have been so far up Mt. Stupid.....
Wait, he just called a freestyle drone a cinawhoop that’s a 5 inch freestyle, quad with gps noob noob noob everybody take his information with a grain of salt
@@Rckid28 but what if I'm outside the US and many parts are unavailable? I also live in an apartment so I don't have stuff like a sautering(idk how to spell it) board.
I think you make some good points about not building your own drone, but as a new person who built his first drone i think it was worth it. It taught me how the drone actually worked and what the components did, which was really helpful. However, i do like to build and fiddle with stuff so it might just be me.
quite the same with me😂
100%
Exactly, then when your drone breaks you can fix it way easier and also i just enjoy building sH@t so i don't mind.
I’ve been flying FPV for 6+ years and what I love the most is to be on my own without anyone else … me time 😎
I feel like trap #3 is the most important.
A whise person once said.
"The moment you start to compare yourself to others is the moment when fun starts to degrade because you cant match your own expectations."
Most important thing is to HAVE FUN with like minded people and yourself.
The rest happens when time passes by :)
Fly safe legends!!!! And have fun 🎉❤
Few months ago, I was flying in the local park when I came home from work, wanted to relax, this nice couple came up we're quite nice.
I really enjoy your videos. I’ve been flying drones for almost 3 years and just getting into FPV. My experience is similar to yours in that most people are fascinated by the technology and ask questions.
It took me a few weeks to get the tiny soldering down; I’m an auto mechanic by trade; therefore, I know how to use a soldering iron and read schematics. Once I solder tiny connections, building drones was a breeze. I don't let anyone mess with my drone builds or my vehicles. Being able to solder tiny connections and read schematics is the key to making a drone quickly.
I built my 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th drones and have frames / components for two more 5" freestlye copters being delivered this week.
I did my 1st build after watching a Bardwell how to and discovered I enjoy building them as much as flying them.
Honestly if not for building it myself I would have felt lost instead of having a much better working knowledge of how each component works & relates to the others.
Also, because I chose to build, I had the confidence, plus every tool and most spare parts to make any repairs necessary.
Needless to say, I am a huge advocate of building at least ones own first drone.
If you stay in the hobby any amount of time, you will aquire most of the tools needed to build anyway just by necessity, its also a little less expensive to get into a quality machine if you build it and a full build can easily be completed in a weekend or less.
These days even if youre unable or just refuse to learn to solder, there are plug & play options for every FC / ESC, VTX and RX that you could want, so besides having to buy a few common tools, its hard to imagine a good reason not to want to experience the satisfaction of building your own copter and flying your own creation is always more fun than any store bought drone.
Cheers.
I like your cheerful little video. My own progression went-sim only- (because I couldn’t afford a quad yet) then one cheap little quad -- tiny whoops. --learning to build my own bigger one. It’s been good, and I too think it was good to fly first before building. But the bridge has to be crossed, because unless you’re rich enough to pay for repairs, you gotta do it. Thankfully, it’s a relaxing part of the hobby, mostly. The most irritating part to me, is software.
Even the prebuilt drones i bought were eventually completely torn apart and rebuilt/ modified. If you follow a guide with the exact parts they use, building a drone for the first time is pretty easy. Only thing you should wire up is the reciever and the vtx. No need to mess with a gps or LEDs unless you want to. Itll just make the build more complicated and confusing.
Nothing wrong with starting with a prebuilt. But you will have to learn how to fix it at some point. My advice is start with a 75mm Whoop to learn the basics. Great for learning how to fly without the risk. Everything is on connectors, so easy to swap parts and repair while you learn and get a feel for how it all works. Solder on a BT2.0 connector for your first project. After you understand a Whoop it all applies to the bigger quads when you want to step it up.
7:30 Actually you are convincing me to get one too!! lol
Great stuff. I'm brand spanking new to the hobby ( 20 hours on sim and 3 hrs on cetus pro). and really appreciate this kind of content. The reason I am learning is because of the therepuetic benefit it gives me. I have an aquired brain injury and the feeling it gives me when I'm cruising around is just so amazing. So for me it is a very personal thing. Later perhaps I will find like minded people. For now I'm gonna keep banging away with this little cetus. Subscribed. 😊
Hi Brodie! I have been binging a lot of your videos as I am trying to get into this hobby! I have decided to go with the radiomaster pocket transmitter, but I’m trying to find a good drone and goggles to go with it. Do you have any recommendations? I would like to keep the whole kit under 500$ please let me know if you have any recommendations!
I just bought the radio master pocket, meteor75 pro, ev800d goggles, 4 extra 1s batteries, and a charger for about $350. Just came in the mail yesterday. All came from getfpv and racedayquads
@@jeffsmith8066 Thanks for the input jeff! Have you had much time to play around with it yet? If so how are you liking it so far?
this is the newest video about fpv drones that ive seen
the not building your first drone i totally feel
i suggest that to beginners aswell
buy a crux and a radiomaster pocket and a skyzone box goggle for your first experience
its cheap easy and you will get into building while upgradeing
imo you dont need to start with digital right of the bad i find it beneficial to see how the video behaves and that its important how you position yourself
with digital you dont see your video getting worse that well if you dont have your eyes on your bit rate so beginners tend to not care about how to stand
with analog you see really fast if your signal is good or not and that it makes a huge difference how you postion yourself
oh and its way cheaper to start out with analog
crux + pocket + cobra sd + decent charger and some lipos is around 400 bucks so way more affordable than going full dji for 1400 ^^
That's almost exactly what I did, although I got the betafpv literadio for my first controller. It was a great way to get into the hobby, the crux35 analog is a little ripper - inexpensive and relatively small and quiet. And I kept the box goggles so that when I meet people while I'm out flying I can let them ride along and get a taste of the hobby.
@@JohnSmith_1331 ye id take the pocket over the lite radio any day
i heard from several people that theirs broke within weeks of buying it
the pocket has way better build quality and is to cheap for what it does its competing with the zorro in my opinion
i know one guy that bought the pocket as a 2nd radio and its now his main :D
@@bluefpv3263 My literadio was fine, I just upgraded to the boxer after about a year. Still have the little one, although I prefer a bigger controller. I sit with it on my lap and I prefer to have something more substantial and less likely to shift about if I move the sticks aggressively.
@@JohnSmith_1331 than you got a good one
boxer is a nice upgrade i got one too :D
i always fly standing tho
most of the time i get to my spots by bike so bringing a chair isnt really possible
@@bluefpv3263 I generally fly sitting in a beach chair in the bed of my pickup truck. That way I can use the USB to power my goggles and I'm nice and comfortable. I found the smaller controller was a little too light and easy to move around. I love the boxer, and for the price it's amazing.
Mt. Stupid is a good lesson to learn young. Stay humble till you have 10,000 hours... and then stay humble.
I got into fpv from seeing a guy at a Walmart parking lot flying a tiny whoop
I’m all about bind n fly. It’s all good. I’m lazy. I don’t feel like soldering. I can do it, but I don’t have time so I’ll just buy a new one.
I never had any bad encounters with people I meet while flying
I live in fear of hearing footsteps when I'm out with the Avata 2 😜 so far so good 🍻
@@davidpe76 it helps to fly with others that don't care about these things :)
I used to fly at spots where I was absolutely sure no one will see me with my goggles on, nowadays I don't care :)
@@TheCivildecay I have heard footsteps but have been left alone
I don't fly dji type drones, everything I fly are little rippers, but I've never had a bad encounter either. Everyone I've met loves the drones. Having a spare pair of box goggles so people can spectate is helpful, as soon as people see it in fpv they are all interested in getting a drone for themselves.
Out of stock is also seemingly a huge issue. My tiny hawk 3 freestyle Plus has been sitting for 2 months now because the manufacturer has no replacement parts and I can't find a generic board in stock I feel safe gambling on.
The same thing with tiny whoops, All of the good ones are always out of stock as well as the parts. I just bought an Avata 2, so I can have at least one drone that isn't impacted by this volatile market.
It uses the same AiO board as regular Tinyhawk 3.
Can you share the link for the Evoque F5 V2 GPS mount?
I’m not trying to learn how to fly. I just want to make a unique TV drone for so-called sizes so should I just make a very good drone in my first trial? Should I spend some thousands of dollar on smaller less innovative drones that can be easily made?
emax tinyhawk 3 freestyle was my first drone-arrived broken :(
im getting this drone when the Radiomaster ZORRO controller will be up in stock. Hope its not broken like yours.
@@mrcsYTgood call on getting your own remote. The Emax remote is junk, it failed in a few weeks. I tried to fly with the stick jitters anyways.
I crashed in minutes had a short circuit from ejecting only one battery, destroying the drone. Even a Radiomaster Pocket is like $20 more than an EMAX and is like 200% better.
I bought it and it was broken but the sellers gave me a new one and it's really worth the waiting I am flying it for 3 months already and It was my first drone didn't break any important part yet and it flies really good
@@something-xx8zu ye bro waited a month and it was broken
whats broken exactly?
My biggest fear when I'm flying _any_ of my drones (be it my helicopters or my one-and-only quad) anywhere is Karens.
Three reasons why I fly:
1. I'm out in nature.
2. It helps my PTSD in ways modern medicine is unable to.
3. This is one of two moments in my life where I feel truly alive. The second moment is when I'm riding my e-scooter.
The last thing I need is some self-important narcissist what thinks they know best, putting _me_ on their list of shit to fuck up that day, simply because I exist and I'm not harming nor endangering anyone or anyone's property.
There's already at least five reasons for someone to have a go at me for what I am whenever I go out anywhere.... and bringing my drones into it just adds to that target on my back. I'm on high alert whenever I go out anywhere, to begin with. Some Karen having a go at me will elevate that so damn hard, it could very well cause me to become a recluse. But, then again, that's what they'd unironically want. =-/.-=
Any suggestions on places to network that doesent include social media? I am happy to say I am 42 and have never had a social media account.
lol your on UA-cam.... Welcome to social media!🤣
I feel the same (47). Maybe there is a local hobby shop that knows people who also fly in the area.
I live in a caravan and build drones 😜
Starting out with prebuilt tiny whoops is a good option, that said, if you had built that drone you talked about at the beginning you would have known how to fix it and you wouldn't have been so far up Mt. Stupid.....
how r u?- stunning drone~goodbye,🤚
Bloody Karens, that karen looked kinda cute tho 😏
Not everyone has a vehicle to get places if nobody lives near you
Then just bike🤦♂️
@@thebrokeskill ok bro I’m not riding a bike with a 75 pound backpack 50 miles to the next town
@@TheKillbot7 why do you need to ride to the next town
the preview wasn't a good choice IMO
Wait, he just called a freestyle drone a cinawhoop that’s a 5 inch freestyle, quad with gps noob noob noob everybody take his information with a grain of salt
I've been thinking the same thing. This guy is an FPV noob, but he seems to act like a fountain of experteze.
This is what our community is becoming.
@@majorlee9714 BUILD CRASH REPEAT PROBABLY FLOW A DJI DRONE THEN JACKED FPV QUAD
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💪🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
This video starts off with very very bad advice. Just FYI.
Why?
@@piotrprogameryou should most definitely build your first drone! He would have known how to fix it
@@Rckid28 but what if I'm outside the US and many parts are unavailable? I also live in an apartment so I don't have stuff like a sautering(idk how to spell it) board.